Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It accuses " particular producer groups " of " manipulating domestic environmental policies to benefit themselves at the expense of both the rest of the economy and ultimately even the environment " . |
| 2 | The first occurs at the transition from the institution to independence , when the girls were often in need of help and about to launch themselves on a course in life from which it might be hard to turn back . |
| 3 | Generally , no fee is charged for pupillage , but local authorities do not give grants for maintenance , which has the unfortunate result that students without adequate parental means may find it impossible to establish themselves at the Bar . |
| 4 | Breeders often release the owls too old , without giving them time to establish themselves in the release area . |
| 5 | ‘ It takes most soaps quite a long time to establish themselves in the favour of the audience . |
| 6 | Consequently it has sometimes been difficult for the new patterns to establish themselves in the face of combined resistance from programme committees , established departments , and professional senior officers . |
| 7 | The way was thereby opened for English merchants to establish themselves in the island , and William Bolton came to Madeira as an agent for Robert Heysham of London , who had a brother in Barbados to whom Bolton shipped a large quantity of wine . |
| 8 | The Conservatives now have six representatives on the local council , where they are the largest party , and desperately need a victory in North Down on Thursday to establish themselves in the province . |
| 9 | Lomnitz has shown how squatters manipulate social networks to establish themselves in the city ( Lomnitz 1977 ) . |
| 10 | The ‘ younger people ’ as they were known started to ready themselves for the expedition which started the next day . |
| 11 | Reluctantly tearing herself away from Marc as they went to ready themselves for the ceremony later on , she changed rapidly into the coat-dress bought for the wedding , then did her face and piled up her hair . |
| 12 | In Phil Alden Robinson 's adaptation of W.P.Kinsella 's book , Kevin Costner , Hollywood 's latest superstar , plays a New York boy with a hang-up about his father who has taken his wife ( Amy Madigan ) and daughter off to an Iowan farm to find themselves as a family . |
| 13 | About one person in two can expect to find themselves on an operating table at some time in their lives . |
| 14 | Moreover , poorer clubs were anxious not to find themselves in a wages-auction with richer ones and the FA finally set a £4 a week maximum in 1900 , which was raised in 1909 to £5 for senior professionals with a club . |
| 15 | Business visitors looking for editorial staff seemed bemused to find themselves in the middle of such a busy and , it has to be said , chatty event . |
| 16 | Although the story is probably a fair reflection of the Italians ' unwillingness to find themselves in the middle of an English war , most Englishmen seem to have acknowledged Gloucester 's authority . |
| 17 | Although the story is probably a fair reflection of the Italians ' unwillingness to find themselves in the middle of an English war , most Englishmen seem to have acknowledged Gloucester 's authority . |
| 18 | When the studio system collapsed , many of the directors who had flourished within it found themselves unable to impose themselves on a process that too easily slipped out of their control . |
| 19 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 20 | In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement . |
| 21 | This is because , long before white men arrived on the scene , the local Indians living deep in the Amazonian rain forests caught and killed these animals to provide themselves with the poison tips for their arrows . |
| 22 | First of all , medieval armies were sometimes not dependent on lines of communication : they did not , often could not , live on their own supplies , and reckoned to feed themselves on the land they passed through . |
| 23 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |
| 24 | But I do n't see why they should be asked to shoot themselves in the foot by paying to train a competitor 's workforce , and neither do they ! ’ |
| 25 | A variety of other industries were also ruined by British policy : silk goods manufacturers , for example , were compelled to restrict themselves to the production of raw silk , while gun making was seriously affected by a restrictive licensing policy and other means ( Bagchi , 1982 , p. 82 ) . |
| 26 | On the range , the men had to familiarize themselves with every form of weapon including German and Italian ones . |
| 27 | Such parties , as always , like to equate themselves with the sense of collective separateness , hostility to ‘ them ’ and the ‘ imagined community ’ which may be almost universally felt in their ‘ nation ’ , but they are very unlikely to be the only expression of such a national consensus . |
| 28 | Now , however , many spin silk to conceal themselves from the world . |
| 29 | The metaliterary component is not so much in the existence of characters who discourse on the state of the art , even obliquely , through the exploration of writing 's other — through non-writing or no-more-writing — as in the project of the central characters , which is an essentially dramatic one : that of trying to imagine themselves into the world of another . |
| 30 | For many Arab people , their ambivalence about supporting Saddam Hussein is secondary to their desperate need to rid themselves of a system imposed by outside forces ; a system that enables a small ruling Arab elite to plunder the region 's resources , siphoning off cheap oil to the West , while millions of Arabs live in dire poverty , struggling to survive the economic blows dealt to the Arab nation by the West . |